IBM is promulgating a storage management concept that it calls a “storage hypervisor” though the final product name has not been determined. The company claims the technology will offer benefits – such as better storage utilization – leading to better storage cost economics, and data mobility – leading to increased flexibility, such as non-disruptive storage refreshes – and parallels the acceptance of server hypervisors and virtualization. But there are also broad implications about how storage will be deployed and managed under IBM’s hypervisor solutions and strategy that you may find worthy of attention. Let’s see why.
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IBM Pulse 2012: A New Storage Hypervisor
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Dell’s SonicWall Acquisition Follows Cheap ‘n Easy Blueprint
Dell’s Sonicwall acquisition makes sense. Dell’s strategy is to sell low-cost desktops, laptops, and servers that are cheap and easy to use to everyone from small companies up to mid-size enterprises with the occasional large enterprise in the mix. Dell is going to do with security what they did with storage and are doing with networking. Remove complexity, bring important features to the surface, and make the resulting products available to the largely under served SMB/SME market.
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Bandwidth Dominates Videoconferencing Concerns
A new study shows that companies are expanding their use of videoconferencing, but many worry that they may not be able to keep up with the network bandwidth demands of the technology. The concerns are documented in a survey that looks at three networking-related issues: video, cloud computing and application management. In the first of a three-part series, Network Computing looks at videoconferencing and the network.
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Six Ways to Protect Your Apple iPad
Are you one of the millions who have either pre-ordered the third-generation iPad, or plan to brave the crowds at the Apple Store and other retailers to pick one up first-hand this Friday? You’d better take some steps to protect that investment.
It’s nice that Apple continues to launch new and improved devices while maintaining the same prices as the previous versions, but $ 500 and up is still a lot of money. Imagine how devastating it would be to shatter the display or spill cup of coffee on your iPad a few weeks after you buy it.
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Dell Acquires Security Specialist SonicWall
Dell on Tuesday said it reached a deal to acquire SonicWall with an eye to expanding its presence in the market for systems that help businesses fend off a wide range of cyber-attacks. Privately-held SonicWall specializes in so-called Unified Threat Management platforms, which combine multiple security systems into a single appliance.
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IT Buyers Seek Flexible Pricing
Capital spending by businesses took a beating during the recent recession, but IT spending held up pretty well by comparison. Still, as the economy slowly recovers from the downturn, businesses are keeping tight control of their capital budgets and are looking for flexible pricing on IT products and services, industry analysts say.
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OpenFlow Nascent But Making Solid Progress
The OpenFlow protocol for enabling software-defined networking has made progress, but to analyst Rohit Mehra, it’s still more of a concept than a reality. At last week’s IDC Directions 2012 conference in San Jose, Calif., he tried to put the buzz about OpenFlow in perspective.
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Private Cloud Lessons You Can’t Learn From Amazon, Google, Etc
Very little of what the large public cloud providers do is actually applicable to a private cloud. The reason for this is twofold: scale and application.
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HDD Shortages Spurring Storage Efficiencies
While there is a worldwide hard-disk drive (HDD) shortage due to recent flooding in Thailand that is affecting pricing, industry observers say the impact won’t be felt over the long term and that organizations are looking at how to increase efficiencies anyway, due to user demand to store more data.
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